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By pattti • 13 years ago

Let’s tell kids that rape = a pick-up strategy?

Trigger warning: violence against women, physical assault and rape. Graphic and portrayed as something positive and possibly humorous.

Forget the run-of-the-mill sexist ads for a while, as harmful as they are. Here’s a truly horrifying one, so much that I cannot believe it’s been approved anywhere.

The internet silence around it is really surprising too. I couldn’t find it uploaded anywhere (which means I had to record it from the tv with my cell phone, hence the low quality of the clip), and I couldn’t find any blog post or discussion about it either. The only related discussion I found was about how to cancel the advertised service, and it didn’t mention the ad itself at all. There are several popular Polish blogs that criticize commercials, but apparently none of them has ever mentioned it. Maybe because they write from the artistic standpoint, not the feminist one.

The ad, embedded:

And direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I91oiX8Vm0
By pattti • 14 years ago

Livejournal encouraging eating disorders?

I usually enjoy Livejournal’s daily “writer’s block”. The questions are often silly, but harmless, and at times they can actually be interesting.

However, this is today’s question:

“If a magic genie told you your calories wouldn’t count for 24 hours, would it change what and how much you ate that day?”

To me it’s bordering on encouraging eating disorders.

And it looks like most answers are “YES!”. (Which is probably because most people who think this question is stupid don’t answer it at all.) But fortunately some users who have answered the question before me have said perfectly what I was going to say.

joshksingh:
“To put this question another way: If an evil djinn told you you ...

I usually enjoy Livejournal’s daily “writer’s block”. The questions are often silly, but harmless, and at times they can actually be interesting.

However, this is today’s question:

“If a magic genie told you your calories wouldn’t ...